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Weitek
Logo: Weitek, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
American chip-design company
Weitek Corporation was an American chip-design company that originally focused on floating-point units for a number of commercial CPU designs. During the early to mid-1980s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel-processing supercomputers. Weitek started in 1981, when several Intel engineers left to form their own company.2 It ceased to exist in 1996.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersSan Jose1
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Weitek Corporation was an American chip-design company that originally focused on floating-point units for a number of commercial CPU designs. During the early to mid-1980s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel-processing supercomputers.2
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Links
- WikipediaWeitek
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ1937841
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- 1WikidataWeitek on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaWeitek on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsWeitek logo by Weitek, Public domain
- 4Wikimedia CommonsWeitek photo by Konstantin Lanzet, CC BY-SA 3.0